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Moving Politics
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Deborah B. Gould |
In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the str… |
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Queer activism in India
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Naisargi N. Dave |
In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizatio… |
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Queer Bangkok
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Peter A. Jackson |
The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country’s gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. These communities are among the largest in Southeast Asia, and indeed in the world, and h… |
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Homophobias
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Tom Boellstorff,Don Kulick,Steven Angelides,Martin F. Manalansan IV,David A. B. Murray,David A. B. Murray,Constance R. Sullivan-Blum,Lawrence Cohen,Suzanne LaFont,Brian Riedel,Constance R. Sullivan-Blum |
What is it about “the homosexual” that incites vitriolic rhetoric and violence around the world? How and why do some people hate queers? Does homophobia operate differently across social, political, … |
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Bodies, pleasures, and passions
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Richard G. Parker |
Originally published in the early 1990s, Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions quickly became a classic ethnographic study of the social, cultural and historical construction of sexuality and sexual divers… |
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Out in public
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Ellen Lewin,William L. Leap |
Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a deep conversation about the meaning of sexuality, su… |
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Out in theory
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Ellen Lewin,William L. Leap |
Lesbian and gay anthropologists write candidly in Out in the Field about their research and personal experiences in conducting fieldwork, about the ethical and intellectual dilemmas they face in writ… |
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Falling into the Lesbi World
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Evelyn Blackwood |
Falling into the Lesbi World offers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends (femmes) in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. While l… |
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Archaeologies of Sexuality
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Barbara L. Voss,Robert A. Schmidt |
Status, age and gender have long been accepted aspects of archaeological enquiry, yet it is only recently that archaeologists have started seriously to consider the role of sex and sexuality in their… |
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Homosexualities (Worlds of Desire
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Stephen O. Murray |
Breathtaking in its historical and geographical scope, this book provides a sweeping examination of the construction of male and female homosexualities, stressing both the variability of the forms sa… |
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Ethno-erotic Economies
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George Paul Meiu |
Ethno-erotic Economies explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional … |
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Given to the Goddess
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Lucinda Ramberg |
Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research … |
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Real Queer?
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David A. B. Murray |
“How do I prove I’m gay?” This is the central question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation persecution. But what are the inherent challenges in obtai… |
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Queer Freedom
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Ana-Maurine Lara |
Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her eng… |
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Takarazuka
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Jennifer Robertson |
The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devote… |
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Gay Fatherhood
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Ellen Lewin |
Men are often thought to have less interest in parenting than women, and gay men are generally assumed to prefer pleasure over responsibility. The toxic combination of these two stereotypical views h… |
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De los Otros
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Joseph M. Carrier |
A detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combination of ethnographic techniques and participant observations. |
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The politics of passion
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Gloria Wekker |
Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly… |
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Global Divas
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Martin F. Manalansan IV |
A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a… |
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Caribbean Pleasure Industry
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Mark Padilla |
In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through pro… |
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